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- Another one rides the bus
- Another one rides the busWiMax on busses in Stockholm, SwedenSince a week there are busses with WiMax, 3G and GPSR driving around in Stockholm, Sweden. The purpose is to collect metrics from the busses and later also metro trains, as a side effect there's free internet connectivity for the passengers./Joakim
- Tags: WiMAX, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Stockholm
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- The City of Stockholm Creates an Educational Portal With Novell exteNd to Enhance Communication Between Teachers and Students, as Well as Provide Secure Access to Web-Based Resources
- The City of Stockholm provides government services to nearly one million citizens. All of Stockholm's schools are connected to a fast optical network. However, the school system had two main directories - a public one for civilians, which included students, and an administrative one with greater security for teachers and...
- Tags: Web, Novell Inc., Microsoft Access, Novell exteNd, Teacher, Stockholm, Portals, Web Technology, Web Services, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- (Photos: Ikea, from warehouse to living room)
- (Photos: Ikea, from warehouse to living room)Ikeayes, but how formaldehyde was used in the wood, how many toxins were used to process and dye the fabric, and how much were the workers paid?RE: (Photos: Ikea, from warehouse to living room)The innovative design, ease of assembly, quality of materials used -...
- Tags: IKEA, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Invincible ignorance and the Pirates Bay
- Some people are truly exasperating in the depths to which they will go to justify what is clearly wrong. To add insult to injury, their activities undermines the cause of real reformers who might help build a copyright system less tilted against consumers which recognizes that intellectual property is different,...
- Tags: Sweden, Nanotechnology, Intellectual Property, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Insurance Firm Uses Virtualization to Streamline Server Provisioning, Drive Agility
- In business since 1917, today Alecta is the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden. The company's data center, located at headquarters in Stockholm, houses more than 100 older, underutilized servers. Alecta's IT staff deployed a Microsoft virtualization solution to improve hardware utilization, streamline server provisioning, and increase agility in responding...
- Tags: Server Provisioning, Streamline, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Alecta, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Sumitomo copycat crime in Stockholm
- Longterm readers of Threatchaos will recall the attempted Sumitomo Bank heist in London. In that incident a gang connected to an Israeli crime syndicate infiltrated the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui and installed hardware key stroke loggers on desktop machines within the bank. With stolen credentials they attempted to transfer...
- Tags: Bank, News, Sumitomo Corp., Financial Services, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- IT Solutions Provider Uses Server Technology to Streamline Systems, Reduce Costs
- Qbranch is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The growing organization provides systems integration and IT consulting services to a range of customers throughout Europe. Many of these customers increasingly have been choosing the company's Windows-based managed and hosted solutions. As a result, the company needed to...
- Tags: Information Technology, Streamline, Server, Microsoft Corp., Qbranch, Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- IBM Case Study: The City of Stockholm
- Stockholm wanted to reduce both the number of traffic jams in the city and the municipality's air pollution levels. Road-use charging systems must demonstrate a high degree of accuracy. An inefficient system costs the city funds it would otherwise have earned from tolls. Incorrect billings also cause bad feelings among...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- CarTax (zip)
- CarTax will download Swedish car taxes which are debited when you drive your car through the toll boths in Stockholm. The program notifies the user with taskbar messages. This program may also send mail and SMS. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Program, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Taxes, Free Trade, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-11-15
- New version of Gmail starting to roll out
- New version of Gmail starting to roll outLooking forwardto the new version, which I hope will come here to Stockholm within the next couple of weeks. In my opinion it is indeed a good thing the [b]Gmail[/b] interface has remained largely untouched since it was launched, but that doesn't mean...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Gmail, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Still no word on cause of WGA outage or Microsoft's future prevention plans
- Still no word on cause of WGA outage or Microsoft's future prevention plansThe answer to your questionsCan be summed up in a simple phrase "We are the only caterer in town" A phrase from a Flintstones episode in which the town caterer made a mistake, but didn't care, simple...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., caterer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- More on Vista network performance issue
- More on Vista network performance issueShssh. Don't let George or Ed hear this problem.They suffer from Stockholm syndrome and so will always side with their captors that hold them hostage Microsoft. It must be a hardware issue, driver issue, user error or the phase of the moon; anything but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), performance, network, Vista NOW, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Skype blames deficient networking algo blamed for service disruption
- Skype blames deficient networking algo blamed for service disruptionI think is some windoze patchwhen M$ applies a patch that premium software stops working.A good reason to switch to Linux!I don't get it -if [b]Skype[/b] «loves [its] customers too much» to allow traffic to be disrupted by a cyber attack -...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, NETWORKING, downfall, Skype Technologies S.A., network, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- Linux is Unix
- Linux is UnixOn the wholeMy attitude to both Unix and Windows is one of bemused forbearance. I have some ideas of what I want from an operating system and neither seems to come very near to them. I accept that implementing my own ideas is probably beyond my powers (certainly...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, LINUX IS
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Xbox division post $1.9 billion loss
- Xbox division post $1.9 billion lossAs should be obvious, MS WILL spend billions to protect the twin cash cows.They were scared stiff that game consoles would morph into something that could become the platform for word processing and web access for a lot of households. And, given that game consoles...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Corp., Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Sony Corp., game, console
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Identity theft is not just about criminal kiddies
- The perception, thanks to the history of virus writers, that cyber criminals are young hackers holed away in hovels in Romania is not entirely accurate. As a matter of fact that perception is rapidly becoming totally wrong. Did you see this article from last December? "The sophisticated international...
- Tags: CyberCrime, Security, Security blog
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Get a free copy of Windows Vista and Office 2007
- Get a free copy of Windows Vista and Office 2007AARGH!!!I can't believe this! Too bad I'm living in India, or I would've gone for it. :-) But I wish that the version of Vista given was Ultimate and not Business Edition. Anyway, it's a VERY good deal.Really!!????where are we going?...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Admin, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Real Estate Company Vasakronan Implements Standardized IT Environment
- Vasakronan AB has 171 properties in Sweden, comprising a total area of 1.9 million square meters in Stockholm, Goteborg, Malmo, Lund, and Uppsala. The company employs about 370 people. Vasakronan needed to standardize its IT environment in accordance with the strategy dubbed "SMART" - Standard system, Mobility, user-friendliness Anvandarvanligt, Role-based...
- Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Vasakronan AB, Real Estate, Business Operations
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Acer: Vista is an excuse for Microsoft price hikes
- Acer: Vista is an excuse for Microsoft price hikesThis guy must talk Taiwan marketXP media center, not XP home, is mainstream in western market.Acer: Vista is an excuse for Microsoft price hikesThis is no big deal..most people will be willing to shell out the $359 for the awesome experience of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, Acer Inc., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
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